FBG: (sitting between two angry youkai) In the story they're upset about one thing, which is much worse then this. In my computer room, their upset about getting fat! And I'm stuck in the middle!
Sess: No one asked you to be!
Kira: Honestly! I was being concerned! A good person is concerned about another's well being! Isn't that right FBG!
FBG: I guess...
Sess: You agree with her pathetic excuse for insulting me!
FBG: Well she has a valid point...but so do you...
Kira: You're taking his side!
FBG: SEE WHAT I MEAN! SOMEBODY CALL 1-800-JUDGE-JUDY! AND HELP!
Chapter 14: The Lonely Youkai's Tale
"Kagome! Why do we have to rest now!" the hanyou complained, "You shouldn't even feel tired riding that pink thing!"
"Hey, this seat isn't all that comfortable! And I think Sango and Miroku would like to rest too!" Kagome snapped back, sometimes he could be so inconsiderate.
Both Sango and Miroku nodded in agreement, they were all tired from walking for the last several hours.
"Fine," grumbled Inuyasha, "Let's just wait till there is a clearing up by the road, it's safer then wandering into the trees."
"That's a very good point," replied Miroku, "due to Naraku's absence the increase in demon activity has been dramatic, it would be better to stay near the road if an emergency should arise."
Sango snorted at his words, but said nothing; instead she occupied herself by fixing her hair back in place. Shippou was sitting in Kagome's basket while Kirara sat on Sango's shoulder; they all continued to walk in silence.
After a about another hour of walking, Inuyasha froze, sniffing the air, Miroku too seemed to stop his pondering and was also starring intently.
"What is it you guys?" asked Sango coming to stand beside Miroku.
"A demon," replied Inuyasha frankly, "It's coming from over there." He pointed towards the trees, heading west.
"Should we check it out?" asked Kagome, they were all starring at the trees now, wondering if they should go.
Inuyasha huffed, "Well it doesn't seem to be a problem and I don't think there are any jewel shards, so I say no!"
"Well," said Miroku rubbing his chin, "I would have to disagree. We can't be sure, if it won't pose a threat later on. I say we should take a look while we're here. Just to be sure."
Everyone started headed towards the trees, after another few minutes of walking, Inuyasha's ears pricked forward.
"Inuyasha?"
"Sesshomaru," he growled and then added, "There are other scents too, mingled with this one. Other youkais…"
Kagome and Sango exchanged significant glances, "There is still only one demon right?"
"Yeah," he replied, "but it's scent is covered with the scents of others. Especially Sesshomaru's…"
He unsheathed Tetsusaiga, while everyone else prepared for the worst, they all moved in closing in the demon. Finally the came to a halt at the edge of a clearing, in the middle was seated probably the most beautiful female inuyoukai they've ever seen.
She was seated on a large flat stone, her pack and sword lay on the ground at her feet. She wore a deep red kimono which looked a bit tattered from travel, her long ebony black hair which was once held in a high pony-tail was now limp. Although as plainly as they could all she was sad and alone, her beauty still manifested itself, becoming tragic.
"If you're here to kill me, make it quick," she said addressing them, catching them all off guard, she smiled, "I don't plan to fight you hanyou, so you can lower your weapon. If this was any other day maybe I would've but I can assure you I won't."
"What business do you have here lady?" said Miroku, Sango glanced at him anxiously, hoping he wasn't starring at her for her most noticeable qualities.
The youkai laughed, "My, you're all jumpy aren't you? Do I honestly look like I would devour you in a second? Let alone a minute? My business is my own monk!"
The youkai turned her face to them, Kagome starred at the beautiful face, the youkai had striking features, with bold emerald green eyes and high cheek bones, which were covered with dirt and what looked like tears. Their eyes met for a brief second, brief but direct.
"She looks sad and lonely you guys," whispered Kagome, "Maybe we should help her."
"Are you crazy!" snapped Inuyasha, "She could attack us when our backs are turned!"
"Iie," said Miroku, "I don't think she will do us harm. I think Kagome is right though, we should help her."
Before Inuyasha could protest further Kagome already hurried out of the trees, followed by Sango to go help the sad looking inuyoukai.
"Well? Can't you explain anything!" snapped Meiko, her hands where on her hips and her eyes were a dangerous shade of crimson and her normally calm red hair was on fire.
Sesshomaru sat silently, he had been silent for the past two days, returning to his cold manner that he held before his lady came into his life.
"DON'T JUST SIT THERE!" yelled Meiko, here anger boiling out, "I KNOW THAT IT WASN'T YOU IN THAT BED! SOMETHING HAPPENED AND YOU NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT!"
"There isn't any point," he said distantly, "She will be long gone by now."
"I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT!" snapped Meiko, "And trust me! I've known Kira MUCH longer then you have!"
Ryoko and Seiichi both sat silently; it's been two days since the fateful day and no one was sure what exactly had happened. Seiichi stood up and started to pace rigorously, trying to think of anything that could help them.
"Wait…" he said suddenly, "Wait I remember something…"
"NANI!" screamed Meiko, her frustration getting the better of her.
Seiichi glanced at her fearfully and continued, "Kira mentioned something that day, something about someone issuing an order for new servants? She claimed that a servant said that he was just recently assigned here."
"There was no such order made," said Sesshomaru frowning, "I'd be notified of any such thing."
"Send for Ling," said Ryoko calmly, "he's in charge of the servants. Ask him if anyone new came in during the past few days?"
They summoned Ling to the room, he stood nervously before the youkai, "You summoned milord?"
"Ling," said Sesshomaru directly, "Were there any new servants brought into the household recently?"
"Iie milord!" replied Ling indigently, "We would never do such a thing without informing your lordship."
"But did anything strange happen amongst the servants?"
"Ano…" said Ling, "Yes there was one incident, about a week ago."
"Well?"
"It was Shin he came back after visiting his sick mother in one of the western villages," said Ling, "He was different. He acted all funny, mostly he was snooping around and well, it was very out of character milord, we managed to stop his behaviour but…"
Sesshomaru raised his eyebrow and the head servant hurriedly continued, "The same day that well, the event happened, he apparently received an urgent message saying that his mother had died. He left immediately without a word…"
Seiichi frowned, immediately catching onto something but Sesshomaru was too quick for him, "Ling did this Shin, after he returned from his mothers, did he tend to spend a lot of time in the dark?"
"Hai milord," said Ling quickly, "He would do a lot of the night jobs, it was usual for him but we all just thought he wanted to be alone…"
"Fool!" hissed Sesshomaru, standing up angrily, "When you noticed these things, you not once thought to inform me!"
"N-no, milord," squeaked the servant, cowering under Sesshomaru's powerful stare.
"Get out of my sight," sighed Sesshomaru calming down and taking a seat, "Next time don't make this mistake again!"
"Arigato! Milord, you are always kind," bowed the servant, and he exited the room.
"Well?" said Seiichi, "Your guess is as good as mine but from what I heard, it was a shape shifting youkai wasn't it?"
"Hai," growled Sesshomaru angrily.
"Who would've…"
"Naraku…" he growled, he stood up so violently that he knocked the table over.
Meiko's eyes grew frightened, "But if the demon isn't here then…"
"Kira!"
"So your name is Kira huh?" said Inuyasha, he slurped up some noodles, they were all seated in front of the fire in the clearing, they had decided to let Kira join them.
"Hai," she replied starring at the food and not eating.
"So why do you have my onii-chan's scent all over you?" he asked.
Kagome and Sango both glared at him angrily while Shippou simply said, "He has no tact at all."
"HEY! Who asked you for your two-sense you little brat!" he yelled, his hand giving Shippou a good bonk on the head.
"INUYASHA SIT!" yelled Kagome, while Inuyasha got pulled face first into the ground. Kira chuckled, while Inuyasha cursed about people choosing sides.
"If you really must know why I have Sesshomaru's scent on me," started Kira, she sighed, "I guess I could simply sat I was at his castle."
"Why were you there?" asked Inuyasha sitting up and rubbing his head.
"Kira-san, you don't need to tell us if you don't want too," said Kagome glaring at Inuyasha, who was busy eating ramen, "Just IGNORE the questions coming from HIM!"
"Iie," replied Kira quietly, "It's okay. I think it's best that I talk it out."
"Don't worry you can tell us," said Sango reassuringly, "We're more then willing to listen."
Kira smiled her gratitude and started her story, "Well I used to be a wanderer, went around from place to place. My friend Meiko was my travel companion, we've been doing this for years now anyways. About oh gosh, I guess it was well, it must've been nearly four months ago. I was lying down in the grass cloud watching, Meiko went to check out the local village when a little girl came wandering out of the woods and found me."
She choked a little here, "It turned out Rin was Sesshomaru's ward, and we were trespassing in his lands. As you can imagine I flipped, but the little girl was lost and I couldn't leave her. So I told Meiko to stay at the village and I spent the day waiting for Sesshomaru to fetch her. He did show up and he wasn't pleased to see me at all."
Inuyasha snorted at this obvious remark, earning him a slap from Kagome while Miroku got slapped from Sango for groping her. Shippou and Kirara looked annoyed at the interruption, Kira laughed and continued, "I guess I made it worse by well insulting him, and giving him cheek. He decided to fight me, so I fought back, knowing that I was going to loose, I distracted him long enough to run for it."
"How'd you manage that?" asked Inuyasha.
"The seismic technique," she replied at his puzzled looked she added, "I'll show you later…As I was saying, I did something really stupid after that. I felt bad for not saying good-bye to Rin properly, I liked her she was cute. So I broke into his castle, which wasn't that hard and well I pissed him off some more. But it got weird and in the end, he asked myself and Meiko to stay at his castle. I was to be Rin's caretaker while Meiko well just lived there."
"He did that!" said Kagome astounded, Kira merely nodded, she waited for everyone to absorb the story so far before continuing.
"So I was there for some time when about two weeks ago, the famous matchmaker Lady Ichigo arrived," said Kira scowling, "I go way back with her. Long before I even started traveling I was one of her girls…of course she tried to marry me off but I escaped."
"Wait a minute," interrupted Miroku, "If you were one of her girls, which would mean you were a Taiyoukai's daughter or at least a daughter of a fairly important youkai?"
"Hai," replied Kira simply.
"May I ask who your father was?"
"The deceased Northern Taiyoukai Yoshimitsu," she replied frankly, Miroku and Inuyasha looked stunned but Kagome and Sango looked a bit confused.
"He was one of the most powerful inuyoukai," replied Miroku, "although controversial in his views none the least. He wasn't very popular, from what I heard."
Kira snorted, "My father wasn't in it for a popularity contest. But anyways, as I was saying, Ichigo was out for revenge for my particular behavior. So when she found out about my presence there she decided to involve me in your schemes. And NO ONE in their right minds would go against that woman; she'll have your head in an instant!"
"Well what did she do?" asked Sango excitedly, "And more to the point why was she even there, at Sesshomaru's castle of all places?"
"Yeah!" chorused Inuyasha.
"Firstly," said Kira, "This may come to a surprise to you Inuyasha but your nii-chan has already has two proposals from Ichigo. She had arrived with her third attempted brining, a very annoying neko-youkai Mayumi as the girl. So when she found out I was there, she decided to well, give Sesshomaru a choice; it was either Mayumi or I."
"I bet he refused," said Inuyasha, "there is no way HE of all people who get married…"
Kira laughed, "Yeah, but it happened quite on the contrary, he agreed completely."
"NANI!" everyone yelled looking stunned, "HE AGREED!"
"Hai," replied Kira, Kami! They're faces are priceless!
"And who did he choose," asked Kagome eagerly.
"Me," replied Kira sadly.
"NANI! HE CHOSE YOU!"
"Hai," she replied quietly, after what seemed to be an eternity of everyone trying to grasp the thought of Lord Frost agreeing to get married, the idea of him as a married man, was baffling.
"What happened after that?" asked Shippou, the kitsune was the only one who was over the whole comprehending; he wanted to hear the story.
Everyone silenced themselves and listened to the rest of Kira's tell, "Well I guess we fell in love with each other, or I have to say at least I fell in love."
Kagome didn't need to hear more then to understand what happened, "He…cheated on you didn't he?"
Kira's eyes grew dark and she replied venomously, "Hai…I saw him in bed with a filthy servant slut!"
Sango gave Kira a light hug, while Miroku sat thinking and Inuyasha simply muttered curses about his no good two-timing brother.
"Two-timing! You should look at yourself!" cried Shippou, earning him a hit on the head from Inuyasha, Kagome simply ignored them and turned to Kira, "Do you really think Sesshomaru is the type to do that?"
Kira looked at her thoughtfully, "Deep down I know he isn't, but I can't help remembering what I saw. He didn't even fight me, when I stood there yelling at him and when I was leaving he didn't try to stop me. That didn't assure me in any way that he was denying he did it…"
"But you can never know for sure can you?" said Kagome quietly, "I mean we've all experienced Sesshomaru's bad side but the one thing I know. He's too proud too stoop down to such levels."
At this statement Kira snorted, "Don't even get me started about his PRIDE!"
Kagome smiled, "You know for someone who is angry and claiming to never speak to her love again, I can sure see that you really love him."
"I-uh," Kira blushed not really knowing what to say. Kagome was about to say something else when, Kira suddenly stood up her face going pale. Inuyasha too stood up frowning. Everyone's eyes went Westward where they sensed a powerful aura approaching.
"Looks like we got company," said Inuyasha unsheathing Tetsusaiga, Kira did the same with Shinka and she said, "I know that scent…although I haven't encountered it in years…I could be wrong. Inuyasha!"
"Yeah?"
"Be on your guard, this guy isn't to be messed with," said Kira, her face growing paler, "He's…a lot more powerful then you think."
"And you know this how?" asked Miroku coming to stand beside her.
"Because…" she said quietly, "I used to be his lover, in a past that's been long gone."
FBG: Ooohh! Interesting...her past is shining through now...we're beginning to understand...
Inuyasha: AND YOU FINALLY PUT ME IN THIS STORY!
FBG: (rolls her eyes) Yeah... (whispers) Although frankly it wasn't really about you...
Inuyasha: (glares at her)What happened to my bro and his girlfriend?
Kira: I'M NOT HIS GIRLFRIEND!
Sess: SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!
FBG: They're over there.
Inuyasha: Oh! Well anyways...send in your reviews! (snickers and starts to sing) Sess and Kira sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G first comes lo-HEY! (Kagome just yelled "SIT!")